{"id":17141,"date":"2024-12-04T15:36:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T15:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/?p=17141"},"modified":"2024-12-04T15:36:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T15:36:20","slug":"nbs-worries-about-high-rate-of-food-insecurity-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/nbs-worries-about-high-rate-of-food-insecurity-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"NBS worries about high rate of food insecurity in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has expressed concern over the high rate of food insecurity in Nigeria through its General Household Survey-Panel Wave 5 (2023\/2024) report.<\/p>\n<p>It disclosed that 20.8% of people in Nigeria borrows food or ask from friends and family over the past 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>It further showed that 65.8% of households cannot afford healthy and adequate meals due to financial challenges.<\/p>\n<p>About 63.8% of households have limited choice of foods, while 62.4% worries about running out of food.<\/p>\n<p>Also, 60.5% usually eat little food because of food scarcity.<\/p>\n<p>The report shows the need to strengthen the policies that address affordable food, boosting of farm production and the implementation of measures to eliminate food insecurity across the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has expressed concern over the high rate of food insecurity in Nigeria through its General Household Survey-Panel Wave 5 (2023\/2024) report. It disclosed that 20.8% of people in Nigeria borrows food or ask from friends and family over the past 30 days. It further showed that 65.8% of households [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1832,1833,1192],"class_list":{"0":"post-17141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local","8":"tag-food-insecurity","9":"tag-hunger","10":"tag-national-bureau-of-statistics-nbs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17144,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17141\/revisions\/17144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}